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Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think. He was also gay. He was prosecuted for being gay, chemically castrated as a ‘cure’, and took his own life, aged […]

Posted in Blogging, Event, Humour on April 22nd, 2009 Comments Off on Tax Rise To Dent The Rich

Alistair Darling has announced a plan where he will tax everybody who earns over £150,000 a staggering 50p. Screenshot was taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8011321.stm 15:22 on Wed 22nd Apr 2009. I’m not entirely sure whether this taxable amount will be taken anually or monthly, but even worst case scenario means £6 a year will be syphoned […]

If you saw my post on Yvette’s Boutique, you’ll know how much I love Web 1.0 websites that are chock-full of content. Today I stumbled upon Party Tent City. I don’t know what this means but I’m sure it’s incredibly useful: 10×10 can be expanded to a 40×60 with nothing wasted except the tarp. We […]

After suffering for years with Karoo’s poor service, high prices, slow broadband rollout, then finally getting broadband only to discover my 56K modem offered comparable speeds, this really has to take the cake. I wondered why my “upto 8-mbit” connection was only acheiving a 65 KB/s speed from Usenet, so I consulted my ISPs trusty […]